look, I'm not one of those commenters that points out every single typo and misused comma... but that first sentence is awful. fix it.

I applaud his ingenuity but I'm surprised Boeing doesn't pay their engineers enough to find a bigger place. That's a tight space even by Manhattan standards... but Seattle?

I really like this place and space. It's just right for my lifestyle and situation. I can see how most wouldn't like it and I'm kind of surprised that no one's commented on the apparent lack of a bathroom door. Though I imagine that two people in this space simultaneously would be instantly intimate - there's intimate and there's intimate, aye?

Personally I would have killed half of the office space so that I could have a tv space that wouldn't require guests to crawl to get to the couch.

That being said, even if they're not my cup of tea I love projects like this! There's something wonderful about seeing a person take total control of their space and making every inch fit their needs.

He's an engineer, he probably really enjoys the challenge of living there. Plus, it's probably significantly cheaper than a bigger place, and there's the upside that you can't own much stuff with a place that small... and he's got a bike...

He's probably taking amazing vacations every year with all of the money he's saving on rent and crap. If you can handle living somewhere that cozy, I think it'd be amazing for the benefits you'd get in mental health (not stressing about your stuff) and vacation awesomeness.

Impressive on several levels!

But, as someone who slept in a bed loft for years while living in NYC, I can say that I'd have to be on heavy medications to sleep that close to a ceiling again.

I repeat: HEAVY medications.

Very cool and impressive that someone would have the discipline to stay so organized and live so minimally. I think it is very spartin cool. Kind of like a camper (or a boat, as they said, but my boat experience is minimal).

What do you think the hanging wrench is for?

This place is dreamy. I've always liked small, cozy, hiding places and living spaces. It's incredible how he makes every inch up and down work for him. The bathtub confuses me a bit.. what if someone else needed to get by while you're in it? where's the faucet? - but I'm sure it all works out in the end. I'd love to to live here.

I love his innovative use of space, esp with that mezzanine area!

It feels like those little model rooms in Ikea - but in a good way (don't we all ooh and ahh when they roll the new "rooms" out?). Although admittedly I would feel like a zu zu pet in my habi-trail in a place that small.

No wonder airplanes are so tortuously cramped! This guy hates space.

That is amazing. I love it. How is the bike suspended in the middle picture. I love that!

It's a nightmarish use of space that would remind me of living in an extremely cramped version of the William Sleator novel House of Stairs.

The bike is suspended on pure horror and I don't want to tell you what the the hanging wrench is for.

I would try it out for a day or two, but pretty sure my claustrophobia would kick in at some point during that time.

Ingenious use of space though, and if it doesn't bother this guy, all the better. I do believe he must live there alone.

I would be more comfortable at this place than the ginormous Connecticut summer home that was just posted.

I would have downsized the TV. I couldn't watch a 37" TV from only about 5' away. Or maybe could have used a computer monitor that doubled as a TV.

The metal bars remind me of some sort of carrier ship!

Becca

This would be a perfect short-term living space, like a dorm room. Grad school would have been wonderful living here! Long term, not so much, but then I'm an accumulator. I need space for my stuff.

No wonder airplanes are so tortuously cramped! - CTalley

Nailed it.

I suppose he lives in this as a penance for what he does to airline passengers.

Big whup.

Check out this guy! Truly amazing!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

DoctorEcks, what a perfect comment!

I'm all for small spaces, but I'm pretty sure if they did psychological experiments on people living in this space they'd see them decline quickly. It also reminds me of that SuperSize Me McDonald's commercial, where they guy rents "a two-door Speck" and gets the world's tiniest hotel room.

The first sentence's problem isn't the hyphen v. comma usage, foodefafa. There are problems, but they can't be solved with any commas.

I think this is too tight. Maxwell's apartment was (is?) 200 sq ft, but it was laid out much better than this place. Perhaps it's the decor, but it reminds me of a dorm room. I respect him for being disciplined enough to edit his possessions down to the bare bones minimum, though.

I'm glad I grew up and don't have to live in dorm as an adult.Too bad he can't grab 2 beers and jump out the shoot to freedom.

I don't understand why he didn't just combine the space where he is reading and the TV area to one multipurpose space, without the need for the jungle gym.

great use of space!!

I don't know if I could tolerate the combination of Seattle's rain and an indoor space that's this tight.

Imagine if he were to bring a girl back from the bar for a one night stand, the awkwardness of two drunk people climbing to get in to a bed, then being extremly close to a cieling.
also, if he were to fall out of his bed, there would be two thumps, one from falling on to the first stair, and another when hitting his 'reading station'

Wow! I am always impressed with people who can live this small. I admire his ingenuity. Although 182 sq. ft. sounds cheap, customizing it is more expensive than furnishing a bigger space. He can afford this because he did it himself. Manual labor is really what drains your pocket. Regular people don't live like this even those who like the idea because it is just not practical financially.

Was the editor asleep on this story? Sheesh! The first post mentioned the first sentence already, but how about the second paragraph? "...(you can see it the yellow floor panel covering it in the second image, above!" What?? Where is the closing parenthesis? What a mess!!

impressive and inspiring. All posts on AT should be like this! ^_^

wait a minute... how does he get up to that platform? I don't see a ladder or stairs or something... does he stand on his chair to get up there?

I didnt even know 182 sq ft was rentable? I've never heard of a place so small...

Good use of space, though.

I'm not sure the sq ftage is accurate. I live in a 170sq ft apartment and its WAY smaller than that. I mean yea, it's small, but I'm not sure it's THAT small..

But it is cool, some choices are puzzling like the reading area, but on the whole it's a pretty cool use of space.

This really is fantastic. I don't know the guy, but my guess is that he doesn't plan on living here for a really long time. I live in New York and my last apartment was almost twice the size of this one. I too used every inch of space AND I had a bedroom separated from the living room by a hallway/kitchen, and a bathroom with a door (it was in the bedroom). But even with that, I could not have more than three guests at a time and once they were in, moving about was tricky at best. I loved the apartment and it was super cozy and just what I needed at the time. But after two years I had to get a bigger place for obvious reasons.

But again, this place is great and Steve is lucky to have the skill and imagination to put the space to use the way he did.

This is a really interesting place, and I would love to tour it. However, I could never live here. I noticed the lack of the bathroom door too, and I mean, how could you have guests over? Uncomfortable.

The sad thing - his bathroom is bigger than both of mine, and I live in a 1400 sf house. And, he doesn't have a kid. But, I lived in a 450 sf house for 7 years, with a husband and 2 50 pound dogs and a cat. And it wasn't even remotely as well designed as his house was. I like living small and am inspired to make the most of my current tiny bathrooms instead of a major renovation to make them bigger. And maybe that is the point of places like this - making do with what you already have.